Django understood harmony and voice leading in a manner that coincided with his contemporaries in bebop, and was a very skilled, patient jazz improviser who knew how to craft a solo that told a story.

I think each of us is equally aware that we are playing a contemporary version of a music that now is almost 70 years old. We bring to the genre all of our musical experiences which include the ...

Django Reinhardt has achieved an almost godlike status among those who love jazz guitar. When he and violinist Stephane Grappelli formed the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in 1934, they created a ...

A historic theater in Missoula will play host to the classic sounds of gypsy jazz on Tuesday, Oct. 16, when Pearl Django plays at the University of Montana. The Seattle quintet takes as its starting ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Not even two paralyzed fingers could prevent Django Reinhardt, born 100 years ago in a caravan, from becoming one of the world's greatest guitarists. The founder of gypsy jazz, with ...

Decades after Django Reinhardt pioneered his distinct style of guitar-propelled swing, it's being adapted by bands like these. Hear what Frank... Django's Legacy: 21st-Century Gypsy Jazz Django's ...

This loose, intermittently compelling biopic of jazz great Django Reinhardt offers a much-deserved spotlight role for French actor Reda Kateb. In Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown,” Sean Penn boasts, ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Not even two paralysed fingers could prevent Django Reinhardt, born 100 years ago in a caravan, from becoming one of the world's greatest guitarists. The founder of gypsy jazz, with ...

Robert Witmeyer has been a lifelong fan of Django Reinhardt, the Belgian-born guitarist and composer who is celebrated for raising “gypsy jazz” to a popular music form in the 1930s. This Saturday, ...